· Private foundation
Stelter Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Community Christian Legal Aid | $2,300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Compassion International | $1,084 |
| EVICS | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $579 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| Hillsdale College | $300 |
| Christian Church of Estes Park | $120 |
| Turning Point USA | $100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $785) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Compassion International Incorporated6× · 2020–2025 · $4k · revenue +16%- CCCOMMUNITY CHRISTIAN LEGAL AID4× · 2020–2025 · $4k · revenue +416%
- SFStudents for Life of America Inc4× · 2020–2023 · $900 · revenue +51%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2023–2024 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $3k
- PPolitifactone grant, 2020 · $2k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
The Center of Theological Inquiry is an independent research institution with an international visiting scholar program which convenes researchers in an ideal setting for interdisciplinary inquiries where theology casts light on global…
Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…
Reformation Bible College exists to provide a place for learning devoted to serving both laymen and pastors, offering both undergraduate and graduate degree programs based on Reformed Christian doctrine.
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
Erskine College exists to glorify God as a Christian academic community where students are equipped to flourish as whole persons for lives of service through the pursuit of undergraduate liberal arts and graduate theological education.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
Risen Jesus, Inc. provides religious education to college students and adults. This is accomplished via public lectures, debates and resources written and electronic on the ministry website www.risenjesus.com. Dr. Michael Licona is also a…
San Diego Christian College exists to educate and inspire students through the truth of scripture and the development of competencies that prepare graduates whose purpose is to impact the world.
Asbury university equips students, through academic excellence and spiritual vitality, for lifelong learning, leadership, and service to the professions, society, the family and the church, preparing them to engage their cultures and…
How this is measured
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 57 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN LEGAL AID ↗
- Who funds Redeeming Justice Network ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds Students for Life of America Inc ↗
- Who funds ANGEL REACH ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE EZRA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Ratio Christi Inc ↗
- Who funds TWELFTH STEP MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Stelter Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stelter Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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